The fans are the reason we get into this business. The fans here are worth a goal a game to the Blues.

These things don't work unless there's some public-private partnership there. The notion that any of this money is just lining our pockets is just erroneous. They're (the county and city) taking over the land, just the way they do with any other private enterprise. . . . This just happens to be more public because it's private sports.

The people here are very passionate about sport if it's presented in the right way. They want to be major league and they want to win. Two very simple things.

It enhances the whole game experience to have a soccer-specific stadium. That's what we'll do.

We've really battled through this. Now we have a change to build Soccer City USA.

Next season we will move ahead and begin working toward the ultimate goal of a Stanley Cup championship. That's what I think is very possible and I want our fans clearly to know that.

Any notion that we bought this to go elsewhere is silly at this point.

When we traded him, I would say that was probably a lose-lose. It didn't work out well for anyone.

I succeeded in turning a building into a business.